New year - New me...

New year... 2016!

It is that time of year to reflect on the past and plan for the future...

I seem to have the same things I want to change every year:

1. Get fitter
2. Loose weight
3. Get a great job that I enjoy

Here I am still not that fit, weighting more and well I did quite my job....

So what to plan for this year - 

1. I have the course that I am working on - still plodding away at trying to get selfies and trying not to be in them.... that is quite a challenge. I do love photography so I am going to continue to push the barriers with what I can do.
2. Start new job - that will be a challenge. I am doing something very different for a job. I have studied for 10 years in Science and I am going to work in a Tourist Information Centre (why did I bother studying? I hear you ask  - I love a challenge).
3. Going to continue with my dancing - I am also going to see if I can get other classes as well - I would love to learn Hip Hop (I hear you laughing - Aren't you a bit old for Hip Hop - No is my answer - but my body might disagree)
4. I am also going to travel this year - it is my year of travelling. I will combine the travelling with my passion for photos.

This is going to be a great year. 

But first the normal Scottish tradition before Hogmanay - I must spend the day cleaning the house to see in the new year - I hate cleaning. So to make it more fun I will Dance and Clean  - Cleance.

Dancing While Cleaning the Bathroom

Follow-Up: I have managed to make it through Christmas without having any iced chocolates but I have eaten way to much chocolate... 'sad face' . I am missing my salsa dancing - so making plans to dance more. I bought more new knickers - this time going for silk French style ones... I love them - Oh la la they are quite sexy but I still look fat. 

Christmas has been

Christmas has been!

It is Boxing day and I have been out shopping... Only bought a few wee things nothing that would break the bank.

I was less than inspired with the sales this year. Not sure why but I felt it had lost its punch...

There was one shop that made me laugh. 

The shop is locally owned and they posted on Facebook -

"huge boxing day sale"

Then about an hour later posted

"Due to rain we are closing early"

This made me laugh, as who would close their doors on boxing day due to rain. 

Oh well their loss - at least they do not live in Scotland they would never be open.

After shopping we decided on movie night so we got some yummy nibbles and settled in for the night. (We did not cancel due to rain).

Relax  and Movie Time

Travelling Selfies

On Holiday - still working on selfies

Will I was on holiday I was still working on my course. It was easy to do with my phone close at hand but I was also able to take some with my DSLR.

To take a selfie with my DSLR is a lot more complicated than pressing a button on my phone. I did a number of selfies travelling around with my phone.

• Shadow on the path - this was an easy shot that I changed from colour to B&W using the app Fotor. I was able to do this while I was sitting under the tree waiting for a coffee.

Shadow on the Path

•  Apple of my eye - this was under the same tree and as you can see I was taking my selfie in the sunglasses of the my partner. This one I also edited through Fotor. Brightening the colour and also focusing on the right glass lens and blurred the rest of the picture, thus giving a direct point of focus on me.

Apple of my Eye

•  Mind-craft at the Opera House - this was a suggestion from one of the tutor on the course who suggested that I pixels out my face to prduce my faceless selfie. I decided to take the photo in front of the iconic building and pixel out the image of me and leave the building. I edited this picture with Fotor - to ensure my theme of the faceless selfie continued.

Mind-Craft at the Opera House

I am loving the Fotor app and I also have it on my computer. They are so easy to use. Although the reason I am doing this course is so that I do more editing with pictures from my DSRL and learn more about the editing tools with raw images. So the challenge continues.

Over the next few weeks - as it is Christmas - I am going to do the selfies I want on my camera and work on editing the raw image (wish me luck - I will need it).

Follow-up: Ice cream is still on going - but I have moved onto Iced Coffee (decaf I am hyper enough) with no sugar - yeah me this is a better option than the Iced Chocolate. 

I was Just That Girl (woman)

Airport Toilets:

I do not spend my life complaining.... But airport toilets.

1. Messy
2. Never enough female toilets
3. Always scraps of toilet paper on the floor.

So that brings me to what happened today at the airport while waiting on a flight to get home.

The queue was 10 women deep, with only 4 cubicles.
The cleaner was there but the toilets still looked like a pack of dogs had just gone through (no pun attended).

I eventual got to the toilet which was nice add it flushed as I stood up and scared me.

I walked out quite pleased I had made it out in reasonable time. Even with the queue.

Then I noticed something flapping at the side of my shoe, you can see were this is going. The terminal was packed and here I was dragging what looked like to me half a roll of toilet paper behind me....

I started to try and get my tail off without trying not to touch it with my hand. So twisting my feet and trying to use the other foot. I started dance in the middle of the airport. This was not inconspicuous at all...

I was so glad to board the plane and be on my way home. Awwwwwww flying through the air.

In flight entertainment

Follow-up: I have moved on to iced chocolates.... I had three while on holiday - well it was my holiday.... I have been having chocolate nearly every day, well it is Christmas. 

My Selfies

My Selfies so Far

I have been doing all my pics from my mobile phone so far to try and get a feel for what I want to do when I do the proper ones for the course. (Remember the course on photography and social media).

I have decided the main theme of My selfie for project one is going to be - The Faceless Selfie. I have chosen this for a number of reasons:

1. I hate it when I smile and I have loads of wrinkles - were did they all come from, it is like I just walk up one morning and all the frowning that I had done had suddenly stayed on my face...
2. My face has changed quite a bit in the last 6 years due to drugs... I am not a drug addict but I rely on drugs to keep me alive daily. These drugs are great at that but suck at the number of side affects including - them telling me that I am hungry constantly and also making me gain weight....
3. Being able to take pictures is a big deal for me - but that means that I am behind the camera and very very rarely in  front of it. This means it is taken me out of my comfort zone... I do not do that much.

So here are some examples of how I have tried to do "The Faceless Selfie" on my phone.

The Bridge at Sunset
This was a colour picture and I liked the fact that when I changed it to black and white and increased the shadows my face is obscured.

Feet with a View
I Love feet with a view - I take a lot of these because I can show were I am without being in them - sort of. 

Part Selfie
This picture I like as only part of my face is visible and I also made black and white. I like black and white because that is what I used to do a lot of when I developed my own pictures. I always feel that it gives it more of a drama.

I will be starting to set up to take the pictures with my DSLR and I am wanting to be able to do the same manipulations with them - either B&W or increasing shadows.

So the Faceless Selfie continues. It is really hard to take a selfie with an DSLR - I was thinking about it the other day - you can not just hold it out and snap - for starters mine is really heavy and I do not think I can hold it in one hand. Also depending on the lens you have no idea were you are focusing... let the fun begin. I guess I might end up with some pictures of up my noise or even with me not them at all....Not a bad thing. 

Follow-Up: I wanted to let you know I have finished my first semester of Salsa classes and I love it. You can never be unhappy dancing! Hot Chocolates - NONE.... (I have been even avoiding chocolates) - I think it is due to the chocolate a day leading up to Christmas. Oh and Christmas shopping.... I think I need to cover that next. 

Lazy Sunday

Having a Lazy Sunday Watching Movies

So here I am having a lazy Sunday after being up late last night chatting and having a laugh with a friend.

We talked a lot about the turning points in our life's, both of us lost our mums at the age of 12/13.
This was a hard time in my life but to tell the truth. When I was going through it I kind of denied that it was happening to me and I was a very happy teenager. I did not throw any tantrums and I also did not wear all black.

If you looked at me you would have thought I was a bouncy teenager and I guess I was.

Now I understand the impact that the event of my mum passing away had on my life. 

• I know there are lots of people out there that have gone through the same thing and I am sure there will be more still go through it. 

• Over 30 years on and I still miss her and although I can not picture her face without looking at a picture I know what she looks like. 

• This is the main reason I love to take pictures because the catch that moment in time and you memory can not change the image. Everything just stops and you are there in back in the second when the image was captured.

So I take pictures of everything, sometimes I am the annoying person at the party that does not seem to be getting involved. However, I am and I am capturing seconds of memories for the future.

Feet and Paws a second in time

Follow-Up: So nno more Hot chocolates and I have been trying to not eat chocolate (that is not going well with a chocolate advent calender - every day one wee delicious chocolate. 

Mind Map

I am doing a mind maps:

This was one of the hardest things that I have done. How do you describe yourself... Well the first one I did was full of all the negative things e.g. Fat bum, bad hair, lazy eye....etc.... you can imagine the rest.

So I stopped that and moved on, after I had regrouped with a hot chocolate to bring some positive vibes. (I have not figured out how to get the chart into the blog).

Imagine if you will this is my Mind Map for Self in a circle with ME in the middle.

•ME

•Born in Scotland

•Photography

•Since I was 15

•Love black and white - used to develop my own B&W

•Take camera most places and hide behind it

•Weddings

•I love wedding dresses

•Vintage

•They make me feel all fluffy :)

•old things

•I love writing letter and old letters

•Old suitcases

•old type writers

•old cameras

•Dance

•Have always loved to dance

•Never taken proper lesson until recently

•Doing Salsa

•When younger wanted to be a dancer

•Movies

•Love old movies - and actresses

•Used to spend my teenage days watching movies

•Death

•Became part of my life at a young age

•Dogs

•I have 2 dogs

•Kidney Transplant

•2009

So that is me - I also did a professional one, but it si so short if you scroll to fast you will miss it. I am not much of  a career person. I always thought I would figure out one day.... Still waiting!

So these did not really help much so I decided to create a meed board. I am a more visual person.

My mood board for my Selfies. 

Well that done - still have not taken any pictures of me... I do struggle being in front of the camera... But I have decided my theme will be "The Faceless Selfie". I think it has a nice ring to it....

Follow-Up: Hot chocolate 1 - but this was due to lack of inspiration. Have decided to throw way my big pants that caused so much pain. I have considered using them for other things as the elastic in them is amazing. Also it is the first week in December - so Tree is up and chocolate advent calender is being eaten.  

Big knickers part 2

As promised: part two of the big knickers saga...


I decided I still needed a pair of big knickers to suck & tuck in some of the wobbly bit around my bell and maybe even give me back a waist.

So on-line I go and buy a pair of pants that promise to make me look 10 lbs lights. I was sold at it will hide your muffin tops.


I got them after two weeks of waiting for them to come from - I have no idea. Anyway they looked tiny. I had a number of thoughts:

1. I will not get them past my thighs 
2. These were made for size 10's and they have been miss labelled
3. I will need a crowbar to get my fat ass squished into these

However, I decided it would be worth the struggle. I was surprised that they were very very stretchy and I was able to get both my thighs in as well as my ass. I did not really make me look like I had lost 10 lbs or give me back a waist.

It kind of smoothed out my belly making it look rounder. Oh well the decision was made I had a big day the next day and I wanted to wear a lovely wee read dress that I have and I did not want to have my belly walking into the room before my. So I wore my new fancy big knickers and I was so happy and they felt comfy.

Until I was eating. Then the issues started. 

I drink a lot of water and I had a nice dinner - half way through dinner I felt like all my internal organs were being suffocated and the food and water that I had consumed were sitting in the area just above my super new pants. 

I went to the bathroom to see if I could relieve the pain, this did not seem to help. By the time I got home I whipped off the now 'killing me softly knickers' and lay on the floor for 30 minutes as my organs rearranged themselves.

I survived the 'killing me softly knickers' -just- and I was about to through them out my partner said 

"You only wore them once, could you not sell them on Ebay saying 'knickers only used once. In nearly new condition'.

I choose not to reply and just rolled my eyes, as I am sure there are other websites that are more interested in used pants... but I am not going there.

Follow -Up: Hot chocolates - none. I was so upset about my new pants that I decided the only way to get rid of my tummy is to try and stop having hot chocolates (so I am very sad and a wee bit grumpy). Still doing my course on Photography and Social Media, a bit over whelmed but I am hanging in there trying to figure out how to do a selfie....without me in it...

When your pants try and kill you it is time to buy new ones!

So many selfies

Here I am first week of my course on photos and social media. I have spent the last 48 hours looking at pictures of other peoples selfies or portraits.

Selfie over load.... were do I even begin. I do not want to take a simple self portrait with duck lips and eyes up. (typical selfie that I am seeing on social media from a lot of teenage girls and also women). 

I want something different something that is me and mirrors who I am..... 

So thinking - who am I.... 

I am 

• Amanda
• Scottish
• 44 years old
• Doctor in Science
• Transplant patient

????? but is that how I am????  I do not think so. 

So on to the ultimate question (I hope it is not 42)....

Who am I?

Too Many Selfies

Follow up: I had an amazing hot chocolate today.... but it was cold in Tasmania, it was like winter...

I do have to fill you in on Big Knickers Part II. I will have to do that tomorrow. I think I need to build up to that one.

Cover Girl

I have started an on-line course (for fun), in photography and social media. The first project is to take a selfie.....

Well I am usually behind the camera not in front and I am not that keen on selfies. I seem to take a picture of myself and then spend the time being discussed by all the flows I can find.

So the big question:

To Selfie or Not to Selfie, That is the question.

The first thing I did as soon as I found out the first project was on Selfies was groan. ‘Oh No’. I like to be behind the camera not in front of it.

So as usual, if I want inspiration, I jumped onto Pinterest searching for the ‘selfie ideas’.

There were so many…. How do I choose? I started with an image that managed to hide my face.

I decided that I would take the picture on me phone and once I liked it I could set up my DSLR.

Draft #1: Cover Girl

I did not like this one as the image did not match the size of my face – needs a magazine that has a larger image or that were I am able to fit into the pose.

The quest continues to find a selfie!

Follow up: I have been gong swimming and doing a small amount of yoga. These things are more my style of exercise. No one is shouting at you to go harder and at the end of yoga you get a wee nap. Hot chocolates are still ongoing even though it is summer - I think I am justified as I am doing my wee bit of exercise.  

Who needs Taco Tuesday, when there is Muffin Monday!

Say Hello to my Little - Muffins!

Muffin Monday. That is now a thing... 

Well it was today in my house. I had four pears that were going off so I decided to make 'Pear and Chocolate muffins'.

I had to great the overripe pears and in doing this one of the pears had gone bad. It was to late it was the last pear and it was in with the other grated pears... Damn could not use the pears.

Quick change of plan. Use grated apples instead. so grated 3 apples and placed that into the mixture. I was back on track, nearly everything was added - just apple sauce. Nope did not have that.

I decided the only thing that I had was orange juice... So in went a glugg of orange juice and the mixture was ready.

Even though I started with a great receipt that I thought I had all the stuff for I ended up improvising and hoping for the best.

Well, Muffin Monday was a success. I wonder what I will do for Wednesday!

10 Things

My reading has become "10 things to do:

to make you

• Slimmer
• Smarter
• Have tighter tummy
• Have thinner thighs
• Sleep better
• Eat better
• Better person

when

• You get married
• You get engaged
• You get divorced
• You older

I do not think if I did all of the things they say to do would I be 'Wonder Woman'. So these are the things that I am doing.

• I am going to yoga :) 
• I have started beginners Salsa lessons
• I am walking with a friend
• I have stopped having hot chocolates (this one is easy - because it is summer) 

I am not perfect but I am trying. Life is to short to do all the things that seem to thrown at us these days to be perfect. So I am going to do what makes me happy.

This is were I am doing yoga.

Burning the past

So today I  was burning some garden rubbish and with that I decided to burn some of my past.

I decided to burn all the papers that I had read and kept since my PhD.

It was time to move on or more importantly I needed the space so I collect more crap....

Update: no hot chocolate... But it is coming into summer. I have moved onto iced coffees... Oh and I got engaged.

Public toilets

PSorry top get a but down and dirty! But I have a number of pet hates regarding public toilets...

First: if I have to go into a stall next to someone... I feel as if I'm sitting with them doing the toilet.

So no farting.
Defently NO poo.... Unless it had a mind of it's own.
Try and do slight wee.

Second I am already very conscious standing in the long line that is always in the ladies when you are on your own.

No eye contact.
No farting... Even if you really need to.
Try not to do the pee dance and give away how much you need the toilet.

(Different if your with a girl friends.)

Lastly, I hate dirty toilets.

A wee jobby (poo) starring up at you.
Pee on the floor and/or the seat.
Anything a dark brown colour anywhere.

Follow up: hot chocolate one. Exercise not much but I have been doing a lot of walking. Oh and I also had chocolate desert.

Photographs of yourself

I'm usually make sure I'm behind the lens of the camera. Ever since I was 15 I have taken pictures. I love just catching a moment in time. There are so many things that we can lose over time.

The sounds of a person's voice.

How a person gave lots when the smile.

And most importantly, that a exact moment when something special happens. The memory may change but the photo was also be frozen in time.

So yesterday I got some pictures taken of me as I walk away from my parent... And as I looked at them after he had taken them. I was horrified to see what I look like from behind.

First reaction... When did my arse get so big...

Second... Were food the back day come from.

Let's just say I was not happy.  So I swore to get fit and lose some weight. And went out and bought myself a chocolate bar... I am so weak!

Follow-up: although I have been doing lots of walking, swimming and other sports. I'm still eating lots of chocolate...

I need some more strong will power... Were is it hiding.

Reflexology Foot Massage

Today I went for a foot massage, reflexology to be more precise. Now let me set the seen...

I have just been on a plane the day before and when I fly I get cankles. (Big fat swollen feet.

With this they are sore to touch.

Also I bruise very easily.

This lovely delicate young girl placed some oil on her hands and ruined them together heading up the oil gently. Then she gently rubbed the oil into my left leg and my foot...

Then the most painful experience I have had during a massage.for the next 45 minutes. I squirmed on my seat and even a few times involuntary pulling my foot away.

I felt sorry for the girl because I actually think she was trying to be gentle but still perform the massage and every now and then we would both giggly nervously together.

I have never been do relieved to have a message finished.

As I walked gently away, feeling everything bump and step through the sole of my foot.

It did not reduce my fat ankles either!

Follow up: exercise... Lots. Still do not feel any thinner and stomach still there. Made it up Sydney bridge climb without peeing my pants... Thank is always a great bonus. It was also great fun.

Road trip

Today was a road trip day. Got up and heeded of at 8am driving for 2 1/2 hours to have a 1 hour app.  I'm not ashamed to admit it, I sang the hole way to the pussycat dolls...

What can I say I'm a teenager at heart...

When I eventually arrived at my destination or near it took me three attempts to take the correct turn off at a roundabout. I'm sure the road work guys that were working on the roundabout thought I was being a stocker.

I did make it home safely and I'm just glad there was no one on the car with me as their ears would have been bleeding with my singing.

I did manage to get one picture before sun set.

Update: hot chocolate - none! I think I might be broken.

The Springtime of My Life

The springtime of your life is suppose to be your youth...

I see spring is more a time of refresh and regrowth. So I have officially decided that I am entering the second spring of my life.

Spring has Sprung

I have already been through:

Spring: My teenager years when I was finding out that short hair made me look like a boy.

Summer: My 20's got divorced and then decided to live life to the full - I blossomed and partied and had lots of fun.

Autumn: My 30's slowed down - headed towards a career in science and research. As most summers this time went really fast.

Winter: My 40's - skipped - winter is cold and wet. Miss it out and go straight to spring.

Spring: 44 years old - Time for rejuvenation!

Time has come spring has sprung (again)!

Follow up: Exercise is going well. In two days about to climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I  hope I survive... Worst fear that I might need a pee half way up. Maybe those incontinence knickers will come in handy after all.

Wrinkles!

I am definitely not getting any younger and my face shows up every bad day that I have ever had.

Do I want a face lift?

I was standing today looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, after not such a great nights sleep and it was if every wrinkle on my face was tell the world "she slept like crap last night."

I lathered on as much moisturiser as possible to try and make the cracks disappear, not that it help much.

Then I came across this magazine while I was out and about (having a wee hot chocolate). The article in the magazine was giving all benefits of having a wee face-lift. This was amide at your average person and it was making it out that face-lifts are a normal thing to consider as you get older. The author was making it out that this was as normal as going to get your incontinence knickers and your pension card.

For me the thought of putting myself through any sort of surgery that is not going to save my life or medically required would not even cross my mind. I always thought face lifts were for the Hollywood stars not for us common people....

Maybe not - maybe they are becoming more main stream that when I have reached to age of 50 (not long to go), I will have decided that yes a nip and tuck is just what my face ordered.

I looked at my wrinkles slightly different after I got home, they are not telling everyone what a bad nights sleep I had, they are telling people who I am and what I have done with my life.

The things that are guaranteed to come with age:

Wrinkles - or as I would like to call the growth lines, like the lines on a tree that tell you how old it is and what it has had to endure though out it's life.

Less tolerant of fools - as we get older we become aware that life is to short to spend time with fools and people that think that the only way to age is under a knife seems like one of them.

Incontinence knickers - no matter how much we try to avoid it everything in the body eventually looses a bit of elasticity and this also applies to the muscles that control the bladder.

Although we are all getting old every minute at least if we are prepared for what is sneaking up on use then we can prepare - I think I am getting there since I did by my very large incontinence knickers (by mistake).

Follow up: Exercise and hot chocolates...do not want to discuss. Incontinence knickers, in the bottom of my underwear draw and not worn since the day I figured out what they were...

Just Dance

Today was all about dance. It started with a random stumble onto a TEDx talk about how your mood can be changed by the way you move your body (https://youtu.be/ljm0ldxgkcE).

"Dance"

The researcher found that when people danced or even just watched people dancing it increased their happiness and decreased depression.

It was a great talk and since all through my life I have loved to dance, it seemed to hit a cord.

I decided to dance around my bedroom, so that is what I did. I danced like no one was watching (no one was watching). It was amazing. I felt free and motivated.


The next thing I received a beautiful gift from my cousin - a wee book called 'To Dance is to Live'. it made my day.

When I made dinner tonight I danced my way around the kitchen... Only dropped a couple of things on the floor as I spun myself around and shook my bootee.

Today is the 1st of September and it is the first day of spring (were I live), so I am going to make some new goals for the new season.

1) Join a dance class  - do not care what kind.

2) Go to dance class  - that is an issue - if I join I need to commit to going...

3) Dance in the morning when I get out of bed - no matter how tired I am.... I think this will be the hardest one - I do love to dance but I am so not a morning person.

4) When I do dance - dance like no one is watching. 

The first day of spring is always a good day. Lets get this party started.

Follow up: Exercised yes, I think dancing counts!  No hot chocolates... I have also figured out how to use my ipad as a photo-booth without paying $$$$. Just use camera on timer... who would have thought it would have been that easy. 

Body issues

I'm doing this on my phone so please excuse the formatting difference, but I needed to post this.

I was getting a full body massage, birthday present and I had to get naked. You think a person who is over the age of 40 would be more comfortable with their naked body....well no is the answer to that.

Things that made me squirm:

The disposable underwear - thong not a chance, I went for boy leg.

Being naked and wearing just a robe washing around.

Although only parts of my body were visible at one time -my head was screaming... "Do not look at my fat and wobbly bits"

Having my flabby belly massage - it felt like a tidal wave being pushed from side to side.

I named to survive, but when well I get to the piping in my life were I just do not care that by body is not perfect. I hope soon.

Update: Hot chocolates... To many. Needed one just to recover from massage.

Wedding Dresses!

My 80's Wedding Dress

I am over forty and yes I have been married and divorced. I always remember the picking of my wedding dress and to this day I still love wedding dresses. In actual fact I have ten (yes 10) wedding dresses. That is a post for another day!


I went to a wedding dress fitting with my friend who bought a lovely dress from a beautiful wedding shop. It was like walking into a princesses closet, it even smelled lovely.

My friend entered a massive changing room and was fitted with her dress.

Now there were a couple of things that I thought were a bit odd:

The dress was huge - it was obvious that it was at least two sizes too big

My friend then has to pay for it to be refitted 

These people are all machinists why did they not measure correctly

My friend was so disappointed in the dress she ended up buying a second dress on-line. Now I know that we all love a good wedding dress but why do they have to be so expensive and why so much fuss.... 

I got mine and I remember the fuss I went through - I ended up getting mine made by a wee old lady that just loved making wedding dresses because she said she never had one. So now she spends her time making wedding dresses for other women and she says until the day they collect it the dress is hers. It was not expensive (ok it was the 80's) and she measured me correctly so no extra alterations. 

Follow up: Exercised both days ,  hot chocolates one! I am getting there. Yeah me!

Have decided to paint the house and yes this has something to do with the massive book cases - it is like a snow ball effect.

New Bookcases

Went out and bought some second-hand book cases today.

As we all know we should plan for these things. You measure and make sure the furniture fits the space. Tidy and clean the area ready for the new piece of furniture.

Not Tidying

Things I did for the preparation for the delivery of my new bookcases:

I organised my summer clothes to make sure they fit (threw out 3 pairs of shorts)

Ordered case on ebay that lets me turn my ipad into a photo-booth ~ AUS$13.00

Downloaded a number of photo-booth apps 

As you may have guessed I am a great procrastinator. Although the photo-booth idea came to me to set up for my partner's 40th. 

Apps downloaded:

Simple Booth -  20 minutes free demo then it cost AUS$300.00

Live Booth Lite - Cannot even figure out how to use this app

InstaBooth - Free for 1 week 

So I have managed to have an idea that is turning into a lot more work than I thought... I am still working on finding the perfect app to set up a photo-booth. Let the procrastination continue!

Follow up: Exercises nil,  hot chocolates one! This needs to stop... 

I have 2 massive book cases to find a place to put them, this may take a while.

Saturday Morning Breakfast

Got to love Saturday mornings - especially eating breakfast out. No cooking, no dishes, no tidying up the kitchen and best of all the cooking is usually a million times better than mine.

Saturday Morning Breakfast

Today was a beautiful day to eat out, but for some reason I was a clumsy teenager again. I remember being told that I would grow out of my awkwardness and clumsiness when I became a women.... Still waiting!

Half an hour in one Cafe:

Getting water - spilled water down my sleeve and all over the floor before I had even place a drop into the glass

Drinking - the glass mugs that they always seem to give your Latte is too hot. I spilled my latte all over the saucer as I tried to have my first sip

Eating breakfast - you think this would be simple, NOT....

 I got egg on:  

my scarf (2 different spots)

Over my jumper on my right sleeve and my right boob

all over my chin 

and lastly

I managed to get egg on my hand so as I wipe the egg off, I was making it worse.

Although I am grown up and classed as a women. I think someone forgot to tell my body as it still thinks it is going through my clumsy teens.  I guess if I feel that I am still young then I am happy with body think that as well. 

Follow up: Exercises is going well and hot chocolates a day are nearly matching! I had to wash everything I wore for breakfast because when I got home I found it was also on my dress. Maybe need to look at getting a bib. 

Waiting for delivery guys.

Today was a day at home waiting on the delivery guy turning up. So I did a few things that I normal do not do.

They were on my list of things to get done this week and since the week is nearly over I thought I should try and get them done.

Make a mini pompom garland 

Try and make the perfect French hot chocolate

Iron some of Kevin's shirts

So I tried to make the make the mini pompom garland - this is for Kevin's 40th birthday party - once again pinterest, my addiction, has let me down.  

http://www.kireei.com/hacer-pompones-en-serie/

Look how pretty they are suppose to be - ok so the website was in a different language but look at my result :(

 They are not the same! Were did I go wrong? They are flat and not fluffy and round... 

My mini pompom

I gave up and decided to make the perfect French hot chocolate which was more successful - well any hot chocolate on a rainy day. 

Eventually the ironing - I have to admit this is not one thing of my favourite things. The last time my dad and step-mum  stayed, my step mum was horrified that I could not find my ironing board ( we have only been in our house 5 years, how was I suppose to remember were I put it), and when she found it she hated it.

After spending the rest of the afternoon, with no delivery guy in site, I have to agree with my step-mum time to get a new ironing board. 

Follow up: I think I might have to increase the exercises since I keep having lovely mugs of hot chocolate. 

Big knickers

Butterfly

So a few days ago I decided I needed some bigger pants/knickers to stop my jelly belly wobbling. My body is it backwards it decided to go back to caterpillar.

I decided not to get the super suck everything in knickers, they seem to squish the bulgy bits that I am trying to hide to other areas of the body. 

Love handles - become back boobs

Fat bum - pushed to give both bigger love handles and larger thighs

Large thighs - make lovely knee bulges 

After a number of shops and sore get I decide on a pair that I thought were quite stylish.

Pinkish in colour, with a nice lace patter on the front. They reminded me of something straight out the 1950's. I loved my new pants.

I wore them today, I was so comfy and I had swagger. That is until I we've to the loo. There I was sitting on the toilet when I noticed that my new 1950's stylish pants had a second gusset...

In one of my many past lives I worked as a carer in a retirement home. So as soon as I saw this second gusset, I knew exactly what it was....

So it is official... I bought my first pair of incontinent pants for my woman pads to fit nicely into... 

Follow up:  4th exercise still missing. The mug with the weird handle - found out it holds a wee spoon - so I had a lovely mug of hot chocolate. Yum

Charity Shopping!

Paris

One of my favourite things to do. Charity and second hand shopping.

Yesterday I went looking for some summer clothes and I ended up finding this little gem - I am not one hundred percent sure what it is. Mug??? with a weird handle...

I did by other items:

Denim shorts - that did not button up.

Black maxi dress - that made my boobs look like they have a mind of their own.

and

A beach dress - for over my one piece swim suit.

The thought of wearing a bikini on the beach makes me feel a bit sick  - with a set of love handles that holds enough love for everyone in a ten mile radios; cellulite that goes from my butt to the bottom of my  ankles;  a wobbly belly that is like unset jelly oh and do not forget those lovely swinging old lady arms. 

Follow up: Still doing my 3 exercises - maybe I will remember what the 4th exercise is one day. Also I am still standing at the end of my path. I have not taken one stepped  - I think I am a bit like the mug with the weird handle... purpose unknown.